- ACA Implementation & State Health Reform
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- Specific Populations
- Adolescents
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The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides states with some important tools that can be utilized to provide more continuous, adequate and affordable coverage for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). How the law is interpreted and whether implementation challenges are addressed with the unique needs of CSHCN in mind will shape how well the ACA fulfills its promise to this vulnerable population. This paper developed by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) for the Catalyst Center at Boston University reviews and analyzes key provisions of the ACA relevant for CSHCN and provides suggestions for state policymakers.
Download here: The Affordable Care Act and Children with Special Health Care Needs
January 2011 -
Maximizing Enrollment for Kids: Results from a Diagnostic Assessment of Enrollment and Retention in Eight States
Maximizing Enrollment for Kids, a $15 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched in June 2008 and directed by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), aims to increase enrollment and retention of eligible children into Medicaid and CHIP programs and to establish and promote best practices among states. In this first year of the Maximizing Enrollment for Kids program NASHP collaborated with Health Management Associates (HMA) to conduct a baseline assessment of each grantee states’ policies and processes for enrolling and retaining children in coverage. The findings of these assessments provide a foundation for the work of these states over the next three years to improve enrollment of eligible children.
February 2010 -
SCHIP Buy-In Programs
This brief examines key elements of the seven state SCHIP buy-in programs in operation in 2005. The buy-in programs are designed to fill a coverage gap created when children leave the SCHIP program due to loss of financial eligibility and then become uninsured because their families do not have access to employer coverage or cannot afford private coverage.May 2006» -
Charting SCHIP: Report of the Second National Survey of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
Charting SCHIP II: An Analysis of the Second Comprehensive Survey of State Children’s Health Insurance Programs is the second report published in a series that examine the policies and strategies that states use to manage their CHIP programs. These reports draw on information NASHP has collected through surveys conducted since 1998. Charting CHIP II represents data collected from a survey of states’ CHIP programs as of July 2000.
The Charting CHIP II report can be downloaded here in zip format: Charting CHIP II
July 2001
